At a time when electronic transactions are gaining wide acceptance at the local, regional and international levels, it is important to make dealers aware of the legal measures and bases for the use of this technology. Within this frame comes one of the importances of this book: Electronic Liability, which was written by Mohammed Hussein Ahmed Mansour, which was published in Arabic language in 2007 and contains 584 pages, discusses electronic liability within the relevant contracts and agreements. In this context, the author presents forms and applications of errors in e-transactions contracts either at the stage that precedes the contract’s signing, while signing the contract and during the implementation process.
This book consists of nine chapters discussing the different aspects of electronic contracts, responsibilities and obligations and the measures that guarantee the secrecy of these dealings.
The author allocated a chapter of this book to discuss the types of electronic dealings. He reviews the concept of these dealings, the e-contracts and their characteristics, contracts for accessing the network and the support technical services contracts. He also discusses electronic services contracts, contracts for setting up Internet websites, contracts for providing electronic mail service, contracts for setting up virtual shops and contracts for subscribing in information banks.
The author also reviews the wording of electronic transactions, liability during electronic negotiations and the concept and importance of negotiations.
He sheds light on the general features of e-consumer protection, the international form of this protection amid the rising usages of electronic dealings, the protection of consumers in after-sale dealings, guarantees of consumer satisfaction and his right to cancel the deal, the conditions of the validity of the e-contracts and the guarantees available during the execution of e-contracts.
While discussing the electronic liability, the author tackles the responsibility of Internet user, the Internet user as a consumer, the Internet user as an owner of information content, the contractual liability of Internet users and the criminal responsibility of this user. In this regard, the author discusses responsibility relevant to the usage of domains, the registration of these domains, the responsibility of using trademark as a domain name, the protection of domains, their ownership and relinquishing.
The author, moreover, discusses the various aspects related to the responsibility of computer programs and the intellectual property of these programs, copyright responsibility and the author’s different rights as well as the responsibility of piracy and information damage. He also reviews the definition of virus, protection against it and the contractual responsibility of computer virus.
Chapter seven of this book sheds light on electronic responsibility when it comes to secrecy and privacy. This includes the protection of personal rights, the right of privacy, and the protection of files, e-mail and communications secrecy. Chapter eight discusses responsibility in regard to satellite transmission and communications.
It is worth mentioning that the final chapter of this book discusses an important issue, particularly in today’s world when electronic transactions have become common and expanded across the border. This is the settlement of electronic disputes, the judiciary concerns with ruling in such disputes as well as the importance of electronic arbitration and jurisdictions of international electronic contracts and others.